May 23 - May 24, 2022

East Tennessee State University
1276 Gilbreath Dr.
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

The 17th annual UCDA Design Education Summit is a national summit for design educators, chairs, and students, and continues an ongoing community created specifically for graphic design educators with opportunities for professional participation and development.

As we face all possible futures, design educators are expanding the pedagogical methods, institutional norms, and cultural roles of design education. Today’s design educators are interpreting, developing, and activating responses within their design courses, research and practice. Design educators are asking how learners will bring their lived experiences, positionality, and plurality into the classroom. They are asking how learners will define equity in historical, cultural, and societal narratives—redefining a professional discourse. They are asking how learners develop an awareness of their material choices and environmental impact. They are asking how learners will act independently, make individual choices and activate their personal agency to effect change in their life and practice.

The 2022 UCDA Design Education Summit: AGENCY, seeks research that explores these spaces. If you have work in your courses, research, or practice, submit abstract proposals for paper presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations, or hands-on workshops. All abstracts on any design-related topics will be considered, but preference will be given to papers focusing on this topic. Proposals are double-blind, peer-reviewed. The call for abstracts is now closed.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

REGISTRATION FEES

REGULAR RATES (all prices in USD)	Regular	Early Bird (by April. 15)
Non-member/Subscriber	$295	$245
REDUCED MEMBER RATES
UCDA Partner Member (e.g. RGC or GDC members) Call the UCDA Home Office to register as a Partner Member	$270	$220
UCDA Professional, Associate, or Faculty Member	$245	$195
Student	$195	$145
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY
ZINE MACHINE: Using the RISO for Self-Publishing (SOLD OUT)	$30	$30

TWO WAYS TO REGISTER
Registration is now open. Early Registration Cutoff: April 15, 2022.

1. REGISTER ONLINE (click the REGISTER button at right)

2. CALL 615-459-4559 with your registration information and your credit card number.

A confirmation will be sent to you after registration is received and processed. Occasionally conferences fill before the registration cut-off date, so please register early.

Registration Cancellations
See UCDA Cancellation Policies

PROGRAM LOCATION

Summit Location: East Tennessee State University
The UCDA Design Education Summit will take place on the campus of East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Interactive Campus Map

Getting to East Tennessee State University
The following airport's service Johnson City and the Tri-City area:
Tri-City Regional Airport (TRI) - approx. 12 miles from campus
Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) - approx. 60 miles from campus
McGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville (TYS) - approx. 98 miles from campus
Greenville Spartanburg International Airport, Greenville (GSP) - approx. 98 miles from campus

Driving Directions
Coming from the north, south, and west, use I-81.
Take exit 57A onto I-26 toward Johnson City/Asheville.
Take exit 24 onto University Parkway and follow the signs to campus. ETSU will be located on your left.

Coming from the east, use I-26.
Take Exit 24, turning left onto University Parkway. Follow the signs to campus. The campus will be on your left.

LODGING

Discounted Hotel Rates
The hotel stay is not included in the summit registration fees. You are responsible for making your hotel reservations. Room blocks may fill before the hotel deadline, so please make your reservation immediately to ensure the discounted rate and availability. UCDA has secured discounted rates at the following properties:

Carnegie Hotel
1216 W. State of Franklin Road
Johnson City, TN 37604
Five-minute walk to campus

The Carnegie Hotel, a AAA Four Diamond property, is the perfect combination of Old World grandeur and modern comfort in Johnson City, Tennessee. Discounted rates are $109 (king or double queen room, plus tax). Reservations may be made by calling the hotel directly at 423-979-6400 or toll-free at 877-757-8277. The room block is available until April 15, 2022, subject to availability.

Hampton Inn
508 N. State of Franklin Road
Johnson City, TN 37604
Ten-minute drive to campus

The Hampton Inn-Johnson City is in an area that offers an inviting blend of invigorating music, enchanting culture, and exhilarating mountain adventure. Free WiFi and breakfast included. Discounted rates are $114 (king or double queen room, plus tax). Reservations may be made online or by calling the hotel directly at 423-929-8000. The room block is available until April 15, 2022, subject to availability.

SCHEDULE

MONDAY, MAY 23
On-going
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Poster Exhibition

7:30 a.m.
Onsite Registration

8-9 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

9-10 a.m.
Keynote Presentation
Mixed Reality for Social Impact
Derek Ham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Department Head of Art + Design
College of Design, NC State University

10:15-10:45 a.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (1-4)
1. A case study on community-based learning to activate agency
Christina Carrasquilla
2. Identity and Design in a virtual pandemic classroom
Neil Ward
3. WTF—What The Font. Challenging Dominant Typographic Ideologies in the Classroom.
Dina Benbrahim, Ryan Slone
4. Creating a Service-Learning Experience in Design Education
Marie Lee, Sacha Joseph-Mathews

11-11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (5-8)
5. Co-Designing with the Community Archive: Tactics for Student Engagement within the Politics of Display
Ellen Christensen
6. Design Thinking: An Essential Tool for Developing Student Self-Authorship
Gabe Dunbar
7. Using Digital Tools and Social Media to Revitalize a Traditional Design Project
Paula Curran
8. Disseminating Power In the Classroom
Calee Cecconi

11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (9-12)
9. Engaging Empathy in the Classroom and Community
Andrea Hempstead
10. Design Facilitation and Community Engagement for Re-Imagining Health Equity
Pamela Napier
11. CANCELLED
12. CANCELLED

12:15-1 p.m.
Lunch on Own

1-2 p.m.
Roundtable Discussions: Tenure and Promotions

2:15-2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (13-16)
13. Cancelled
14. A Design Case Study: Participatory Design Without Access to Patients
Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel
15. 360° Content: Taking Up Immersive Applications in Fundamental Interactive Media Design
Nan Hu
16. Equitable Design Pedagogy: A Case for Object-Based Learning
Virginia Patterson, Claire Elestwani

3-3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (17-20)
17. CANCELLED
18. Exploring Motherhood and the Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the United States through Archival Storytelling
Bree McMahon
19. Chicano Publication Design and its Impact
Alexandria Canchola, Joshua Duttweiler
20. Debunking the Immunity of Change Within Design Education
Herb Vincent Peterson

3:30-4 p.m.
Break

4-4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (21-24)
21. The Most Sensational, Inspirational, Celebrational, Muppetational: Collaboration via showcraft as a foundational practice in graphic design education
Sean Schumacher
22. Love Yourself, Just the Beginning: Adapting Design Education into Life Design Approaches
Jing Zhang
23. Manual-verse / Meta-versa : A Sympathetic Merger
Pouya Jahan’shahi
24. Design Education in the Age of Metaverse
CJ Yeh, Christie Shin

4:45-5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (25-28)
25. Expanding Agency and Participation through Multilingual Storytelling, Rhetoric, and Design
Valentina Sierra Niño
26. Acts of Mindfulness: A Case Study Exploring a College Community
Kimberly Mitchell
27. Creating Creators: Building a Campus Product Design Accelerator
Douglas Thomas
28. CANCELLED

5:30-6:30 p.m.
Concurrent Panels and Workshops (29-32)
29. Panel: Expanded practices: positionality and plurality in the field
Maria Rogal, Samira Shiridevich
30. Panel: Seeking allyship to redefine Agency for international faculty and student success
Shantanu Suman, Archana Shekara, Nikhil Ghodke, Garima Thakur
31. Panel: CANCELLED
32. Workshop: Pedagogical Considerations to Engage Mental Health in Creative Classrooms
Patience Lueth, Nancy Nowacek

6:30-8 p.m.
Poster Presentations
P1. Poster: The Crooked Beat: Building Beloved Community through Disability Justice and Punk Rock
Andrea Cardinal
P2. Poster: EUREKA! a Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion
Lorrie Frear
P3. Poster: Social Agency as a Graphic Design Capstone Experience
Melissa Gamez
P4. Poster: Expanded histories via design-writing-research processes
Dori Griffin
P5. Poster: Honoring Diversity in Photography and Print
Rion Huffman, Andrea Kent, Kamryn Kelley, Brianna Bunkelman, Jourdan Bridgette, Abby Rogers, and Kyle Carr
P6. CANCELLED
P7. Poster: Designing The Educational Pathways of the Future
Patience Lueth
P8. Poster: Utilizing Placemaking & Identity in Academic Spaces to Encourage Creative Community and Collegial Unity
Brianna O’Neal, Stacy Cannon
P9. Poster: Corrosive by Design: Are Sedentary Classroom Environments and Forward Head Posture Corroding Focus and Creativity Among Design Students and Faculty?
Lindsey Peterson
P10. Poster: Bridging Silos: Why designers and entrepreneurs should collaborate through experiential learning.
Megan Rhee
P11. Poster: D4D Lab: Horizontal Design Methods
Maria Rogal
P12. Poster: Connectivity through community asset mapping
Samira Shiridevich
P13. Poster: Thanks for Masking
Jenn Stucker, Lindsy Buser

8 p.m.
Dinner on Own

TUESDAY, MAY 24

On-going
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Poster Exhibition

8-9 a.m.
Breakfast on Own

9-9:30 a.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (33-36)
33. Interactive Storytelling: Combining Data and Narrative to Elicit Systemic Change
Andrea Cardinal
34. Empowering Students to Find and Use Their Many Varied Voices
Gareth Fry
35. CANCELLED
36. Exploring Undergraduate Design Research
Christina Singer

9:45-10:15 a.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (37-40)
37. CANCELLED
38. Combating a college town’s economic loss with design
Patrick Finley
39. Publishing To Honor: Exploring the Social Process of Publishing
Christopher Cote, Amanda Shimizu
40. CANCELLED

10:15-10:45 a.m.
Break

10:45-11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (41-44)
41. Unity through Diversity
Bridget Murphy
42. Nurture over Nature: Organizing and Instructing in Design Communities Amidst a Pandemic
Dave Pabellon
43. Rewriting the Canon: How a Timeline Project Revision in Design History Challenged Students to Engage in Change
Nikki Arnell
44. Preparing Ethical Designers
Shadrick Addy, Victoria Gerson

11:30 a.m.-12 noon
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (45-48)
45. Teaching Information Design as an Agent for Social Change
Maria Trevino
46. Knitting networks while sitting in place
Cameron Neat, Leo Vicenti
47. Graphic Design History + Research + Student Agency
Laura Franz
48. Shifting Traditional Processes for Undergraduate Design Admissions
Dajana Nedic, Ryan Slone

12:15-2 p.m.
Lunch and
Keynote Presentation
Filling in the narrative: learning from silence and struggle in design education spaces
Anne H. Berry
Writer, Designer, and Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Design, Cleveland State University

2:15-2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Abstract Presentations (49-52)
49. Grafik Justice: Design for Protest
William (Brit) Rowe
50. Digging into Sustainability: Creating a Sustainable Design Course from the Ground Up
Melinda Posey
51. Understanding Past and Future: Bringing Oral History and Creative Storytelling into Graphic Design Classrooms
Kerry Jenkins, Jing Zhang
52. Student Agency Ensures Investment in Course Outcomes
Jodi Staniunas Hopper

3-4 p.m.
Concurrent Panels and Workshops (53-56)
53. Panel: Expanded Discourses: Positionality, Plurality, Reflexivity
Dori Griffin, Victoria Gerson, Brooke Hull
54. Panel: Asking the right questions: Podcasting, embracing alternative forms of scholarship, and expanding your creative voice.
George Garrastegui, Jr., Abby Guido, Peter Bella, Amanda Horton
55. Panel: Reproducing skin tones accurately for people of color from photography to printed media: a discussion
Rion Huffman, Andrea Kent, Kamryn Kelley, Brianna Bunkelman, Jourdan Bridgette, Abby Rogers, and Kyle Carr
56. Workshop: Using the Design Justice Network framework to Re-Consider Design Pedagogy
Andrea Cardinal

4:30-7:30 p.m.
Optional Activity: ZINE MACHINE: Using the RISO for Self-Publishing
Sage Perrott, Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University

Harness the influential power of the zine! Self-publishing is at the crux of zine-making, and the Risograph duplicator is a popular, quick, and effective tool for the job. Using ETSU Department of Art and Design’s Risograph duplicator, participants will design and print a double-sided, single sheet zine. Collage materials, drawing supplies, and paper will be provided to support the creation of an edition of zines per participant. This year’s conference theme, AGENCY, can be explored through content, but also through the act of self-publishing. Participants are encouraged to bring an open mind, and a desire to collaborate.

SOLD OUT!
Fee: $30 (includes materials), space is limited; pre-registration required.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Poster Exhibition
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination is an exhibition that features posters created by both men and women to celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens play in protecting and promoting human rights while challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing reproductive and sexual rights, protecting women and girls against brutality, and promoting women’s empowerment, education, and participation in society. The posters argue for the empowerment of women, the achievement of equality between women and men, and the elimination of discrimination against women and girls.

Organized and curated by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.

Three of the 100 posters in the Women’s Rights Are Human Rights exhibition (from left to right): Freedom to Lead: Aung San Suu Kyi by Fairey Shepard; My Body My Rights by Wein Ewa; and Stop Violence Against Girls by Saatchi & Saatchi Zürich.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

CHAIR
Johnathon Strube
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Department of Art and Design
East Tennessee State University

CO-CHAIR
Jenn Stucker
Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design
School of Art
Bowling Green State University

PEER REVIEW PANEL

Pierre Bowins
Assistant Professor, Design Historian
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Brita d’Agostino
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
New Mexico State University

Ashley Hairston Doughty
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
University of Nevada Las Vegas

Katie Krcmarik
Assistant Professor of Practice, Graphic Design
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Vinicius Lima
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Grand Valley State University

Francisco Ortega
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Texas Tech University

Brit Rowe
Professor of Art & Design
Ohio Northern University

Kaleena Sales
Assistant Professor, Graphic DesignTennessee State University

Mehrdad Sedaghat
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Florida Atlantic University

Archana Shekara
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Illinois State University

Omar Sosa-Tzec
Assistant Professor, Design Foundations
San Francisco State University

David Jon Walker
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Austin Peay University 

Lori Young
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Bowling Green State University

Featured Speakers

Anne H. Berry

Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on race/representation and educational pedagogy in the field of design, and her published writing includes “The Virtual Design Classroom” for Communication Arts magazine and “The Black Designer’s Identity” for the inaugural issue of the Recognize anthology featuring commentary from Indigenous people and people of color. She is co-creator of the award-winning project Ongoing Matter: Democracy, Design, and the Mueller Report and managing editor of The Black Experience in Design.

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Derek Ham

Derek Ham, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Department Head of Art + Design at NC State University’s College of Design. His research expertise spans the areas of game-based learning, digital storytelling, and immersive media. He completed his doctoral work in Design Computation from MIT, holds a Master’s in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Hampton University. As the founder of the Mixed Reality Lab at the College of Design he continues to investigate both virtual reality (VR) and augmented realty (AR) technology to find ways these tools can expand the ways we work and play. In 2019 the NC State University also invested in the lab’s spin out company Logic Grip Inc. as a startup that produces VR content and develops new VR hardware and peripheral devices.

In 2017, Derek was funded by Oculus by Facebook through their Launchpad Program to complete a VR project called “I Am A Man.” This VR project centers on the Civil Rights, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker’s Strike, and last days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The VR experience has been broadly celebrated for its achievement in the use of this new technology to communicate history in a meaningful way. The project has been shown in film festivals nationally and internationally including the SIGGRAPH 2018 Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Program. “I Am A Man” won the Perspectives Award for Immersive Storytelling at the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival and won VR Best of Show at the 2108 Nashville Film Festival, and was the winner of the 2018 FoST Prize for the category, “Bridging the Divide.” His most recent VR project the “Barnstormers” is a VR telling of Negro League Baseball and is now in post-production funded by the Epic Game’s Mega Grant program.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DerekAHam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-ham-ph-d-8922a342/